A fatal disease in snakes has been linked to a newly discovered virus that is a cousin to hemorrhagic-fever viruses like Ebola. The snake disease -- inclusion body disease, or IBD -- affects pythons and boa constrictors. It was discovered from a sick pet. There is no known transfer of the virus to humans at this time.

hgoldschmidt

Posted Aug-16-2012 By

ACunningDisguise

@ACunningDisguise
Naw, that kind of stuff usually come back to bite you in the ass. If it is infecting the family of Snakes in the Boidae and Pythonidae,it's not hard to guess that a zoonotic disease could infect all the other indigenous Snakes of Florida. Fortunately, snakes are cold blooded animals and the chance of cross migrating infection appears slim to none in humans. Introducing a disease in hopes of eradicating specific family of snakes creates more problems then it solves.

Most ofMore.. the Python and Large Boa snake stories you hear and read about are mostly hype. One even suggested that if a mating of an African Rock Python and Burmese Reticulated Python were to mate, a monstrous snake, the likes of which we have never seen might occur. Which is nonsense because snake breeders have been mating those exact two snakes for decades and the hybrids are actually much smaller than the two parents species.Less..